Saturday, October 09, 2010

when the morning cries and you don't know why

Earlier today I was clearing out my bags. Three bags in total. Amongst all the usual rubbish I found these items; a tin of tuna, a dolls head, a sock and a peg.

Now, that reminded me of this thing I once heard. I'm not sure how true it is, or how my source came to find this out. But I was told that the mother of the Bee Gees always kept a pork pie in her handbag. At ALL times. Wherever she went, she would have a pork pie (I'm guessing a Melton Mowbray, but I could be wrong) in her handbag. I always found this the most fabulous piece of trivia I'd ever heard. It quietly waited in my long term memory until I had a chance to use it.

Girls, I wonder what unusual things you have in your handbag? Let me know. I might just make it into a drawing. I'm not talking about stuff like chocolate, tampons, nappies, make up, etc. What I'd like to hear about is your, well, pork pies.

I have to transfer the contents of my handbag to a newer, bigger, one today so I'm a bit scared as to what I'll find...I keep a sketchbook & pencil in there, also have some unused Greek bus tickets because of course they will come in handy here in Hampshire....

I've started carrying good assam in teabags because so many restaurants have only Lipton dust now (they're cutting costs). And foam earplugs because I'm tired of superloud music in entertainment venues.

Like the rest of us, I always carry something to draw with something to draw on and a mini palette with waterbrush.

Thank you all. Am loving the fact that you also have weird stuff in your bags. Conkers (a girl after my own heart), a squash, latex gloves (why?), drill bits (?!), and half chop sticks (OK?) are just some of the more unusual items. Amongst others. Thank you all. One day I'll make a drawing of these, but it'll have to go on my long list of other random stuff to draw.

Nita, I didn't mention tea bags as I assumed everybody has a bag full of tea bags - like I do.

Amanda, I always thought it was best to keep ones pork pies chilled, but if it works for a BeeGee mother I ain't gonna argue.

I did have to go to my manager in work, one day, and say "I've just remembered that I left a very smelly brie in my bag and I'd like to put it in the fridge". She said it was one of the more strange requests she'd heard.

Hmmm...some spare odd euros and pence from my trip to the UK and Europe a year ago...a piece of rock from the hill overlooking Guiness Lake in Ireland, a piece of some limestone, or that chalky stuff from the White Horse near Wiltshire, a perfectly egg-shaped lava rock...sketchbook, odd bits of chocolate with other odd bits stuck to them...should I eat it anyways? hmmm....a couple CD's??, watercolor paints. The rest is the normal stuff...no tuna:)

My favourite piece of trivia was that the original drawing of the Dormouse in Alice in Wonderland was based on Rosetti's pet wombat. I managed to drop this into conversation the first time I met my wife: it didn't scare her off: though she did check it on Google. Sadly I have since learned that it is unlikely to be true. Back to the drawing board..... what about the fact that Fritz Lang employed 10,000 bald extras in the making of Metropolis?RowlandP.S. My wife are still together.....

Great drawing!I used to carry a monkey wrench in my bag. It was back in the days when I had a folding bicycle and sometimes the seat would need tightening or it would just fall right down. These days, the contents aren't so bizarre. Unless a packet of almonds, some ribbon, a mini wooden peg and a broken earring counts?Now off to take a closer look at that drawing...